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Jesse Tinsley

Jesse Tinsley

Current Position: photojournalist

Jesse Tinsley joined The Spokesman-Review in 1989. He currently is a photojournalist in the Photo Department covering daily news and shoots drone photography.

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News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Retail Trade Bureau

Even before the founding of the city of Spokane, a few stories haven been recorded about Christmas celebrations among early missionaries and converts to Christianity among the Indian tribes as far back as the 1830 and 1840s.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Westview Shopping Center

In the 1960s, smaller independent grocery stores in Spokane were still vying for market share, even as Safeway, Albertson's and other large chains were expanding and increasing the size of their stores. 
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Post Office Annex

Many different facilities have been used to process mail coming through Spokane, which grew from a dusty frontier town in the 1870s to a critical railroad hub of the Western United States in the early 1900s. Later, its position on Interstate 90 has made it an important truck transport stop for cross-country shipping.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Sidney Hotel

At 240 W. Sprague Ave., a modest two-story retail building with apartments was built for the Sweeny Investment Company around 1905 and opened as the Mitchell Hotel across from the Northern Pacific train station. There were four street-level retail storefronts there.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Developing Riverfront Park

How to turn the grounds of the world’s fair, Expo ’74, into an urban park wasn’t always clear. Although the fair was an overall success, people disagreed on what it should look like in the future.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Havermale Island

The Rev. Samuel Havermale was a Methodist preacher, adventurer and businessman. He was born in Maryland in 1824 and later assigned to serve the church in Walla Walla in the Washington Territory.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Central Pre-Mix

William Murphy, originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, formulated an idea for a business while running a steam shovel on Snoqualmie Pass in the 1920s. His family lived in a boxcar while he was on the job site. The stock market crash was reverberating through the economy when he settled on Spokane.

Then and Now: City crematory

In early Spokane, trash disposal quickly became a problem. Citizens were alarmed that some people were dumping their garbage into the Spokane River. City leaders were urged to step in, even though they were loath to burden taxpayers with another city department.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Felts Field

The first airmail flights were in 1918 along the eastern seaboard. Congress passed the Kelly Act to authorize the U.S. Post office to contract with private companies to design and fly airmail routes. Before Felts Field was designated as Spokane’s airport, daring barnstormers landed wherever they could.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Cleanup Week

At the 1905 Lewis and Clark exposition in Portland, Oregon, Spokane representatives Frank W. King and Roland Waltz saw a display from Western Washington that included a lighted sign reading “Watch Tacoma Grow.”

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Then and Now: Union Bus Depot

As transportation evolved from horseback and stagecoach to streetcars, regional electric trains and buses, the operators had to find a place for their passengers to wait for their ride.
News

Then and Now: Manito Park

In 1887, the city of Spokane granted a franchise to the pioneer newspaper editor and businessman Francis Cook and his partners in the Northwestern Land Company to operate the Spokane and Montrose Motor Railroad. Construction began in the spring of 1888.
Opinion >  Column

Then and Now: Front Street

Spokane Falls Boulevard was once called Front Street, a name bestowed by Spokane pioneer James Glover in the late 19th century. 
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Great Northern Freight Office

In early Spokane, it’s hard to over emphasize the role of the railroad freight office in the world of business. If you manufactured something, sold products or needed to purchase an item, you had to pay the railroad to move it, haul it to your customer or bring it to you.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Bernard and Riverside

Although there were wood-frame buildings on the corner before the great fire of 1889, the lots west of the 1910 Realty Building, which is now the Delaney Apartments, and the corner were rebuilt with single-story brick storefront buildings housing cafes, taverns, auto tire repair shops, laundries, a hat cleaning service and one of Spokane’s first pet stores.